Porteresia

Porteresia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Porteresia
Tateoka
Species: P. coarctata
Binomial name
Porteresia coarctata
(Roxb.) Tateoka
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Indoryza coarctata (Roxb.) A.N.Henry & B.Roy
  • Oryza coarctata Roxb.
  • Oryza triticoides Griff.
  • Sclerophyllum coarctatum (Roxb.) Griff.

Porteresia coarctata is a species of grass in the Poaceae family, native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.[3]

Porteresia coarctata is considered by some botanists to be the only species in the genus Porteresia. Other authors maintain instead that it should belong in the rice genus Oryza,[3] as Oryza coarctata Roxb.[4] It is a form of wild rice that grows in saline estuaries in Bangladesh and is harvested and eaten as a delicacy.[5] The plant is salt-tolerant, and is seen as a possibly important source of salt-tolerance genes for transfer to other rice species.[6][7] It is closely related to Oryza australiensis.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "entry for Porteresia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Plant List". Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, entry for Oryza
  4. ↑ "Tropicos.org". Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  5. ↑ SM Humayun Kabir (2012). "Rice". In Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  6. ↑ Sengupta, S.; Majumder, A. L. (2010). "Porteresia coarctata(Roxb.) Tateoka, a wild rice: A potential model for studying salt-stress biology in rice". Plant, Cell & Environment 33 (4): 526. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02054.x.
  7. ↑ "Salt Tolerance in the Halophytic Wild Rice, Porteresia coarctata Tateoka". JSTOR 2556839.
  8. ↑ Rangan, L.; Sankararamasubramanian, H. M.; Radha, R.; Swaminathan, M. S. (2002). "Genetic relationship of Porteresia coarctata Tateoka using molecular markers". Plant Biosystems - an International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology 136 (3): 339. doi:10.1080/11263500212331351239.

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